Title
Subtitle
Name Project
Semester B 2025/2026
Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Erasmus Exchange
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Title
Master Course| Course Title
Expertise Areas
Semester B 2025/2026
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Erasmus Exchange
Title
Master Course| Course Title
Expertise Areas
Semester B 2025/2026
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Erasmus Exchange
The Narrative Crafting Lab
Defamiliarizing Narrative Practices in Data-Enabled Design to Examine the Influence of Generative AI on Narrative Processes
M1.2. Research Project
Semester A 2025/2026
Narratives play an important role in Data-Enabled Design as a means of interpreting qualitative data and shaping possible futures. At the same time, generative AI systems increasingly enable stories and narratives to be produced quickly and at scale, raising questions about what happens to the craft of narrative work when stories become easy to generate. This project investigates how narrative crafting functions as an embodied, situated, and interpretive practice within Data-Enabled Design. It presents “The Narrative Crafting Lab”: an experimental exhibition consisting of three poetic provotypes that defamiliarize narrative practices related to intention, expression and interpretation. Drawing from feminist epistemology the artefacts invite reflection on what gives narratives epistemic value beyond fluency and coherence. Based on a showroom study with designers and design researchers, the research argues for shifting attention from narrative outcomes to narrative processes, highlighting the importance of preserving reflective narrative labor in AI-mediated design contexts.
Read more ...
Title
Master Course | Designing for Social Innovation
Business & Entrepreneurship
Semester A 2025/2026
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
CareFM
Master Course | Designing with Advanced Artificial Intelligence
Math, Data & Computing
Technology & Realization
Semester A 2025/2026
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Title
Master Course | Constructive Design Research
Research & Design Processes
Semester A 2025/2026
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
ORBIT
DESIGNED TO MOVE. BUILD TO CONNECT.
M1.1. Design Project
Semester B 2024/2025
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Title
Master Course | Unexpected Material Engagement
Creativity & Aesthetics
Semester B 2024/2025
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Title
Master Course | Data-Enabled Design
Math, Data & Computing
Semester B 2024/2025
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Title
Master Course | Research Methods
User & Society
Semester B 2024/2025
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...
Reimagined Monopoly
Master Course | Interactional Morality
User & Society
Semester B 2024/2025
In a context where daily routines are increasingly individualistic and efficiency-driven, there is a growing need for objects that foster presence, connection, and shared experience. Tables, often static and overlooked, offer an opportunity to rethink how people gather and interact.
ORBIT is a compact, modular table that transforms into a portable bag. Its setup is intentionally designed as a small ritual: engaging, playful, and social rather than purely functional. The bag itself becomes the tabletop, while modular blocks stored inside are assembled into the table’s legs. Even when folded, ORBIT retains space and functions as a usable handbag.
The design requires multiple people to assemble the table, encouraging collaboration and conversation as part of the process. By foregrounding participation and co-creation, ORBIT shifts the table from a passive piece of furniture to an active social tool: one that enables users to shape their own gathering spaces and moments of connection.
Read more ...